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  Louis XIV - MSN Encarta
Louis founded the academies of Painting and Sculpture (1655), Science (1666), and Architecture (1671), and in 1680 he established the Comédie Française.
After Queen Marie-Thérèse's death in 1683, Louis secretly married a pious and previously obscure woman, Françoise d'Aubigné, known as Madame de Maintenon; she urged him to suppress the immorality that was rife at his court.
Louis XIV was never able to resolve the tensions between a governing elite committed to efficiency and a society organized by rank, birth, and privilege, which explains many of the failures of his reign.
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 Louis XIV - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Louis XIV   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Following the death of his father-in-law, Philip II of Spain, Louis claimed the Spanish Netherlands and attempted 1667–68 to annex the territory, but was frustrated by an alliance of the Netherlands, Britain, and Sweden.
The acceptance by Louis of the Spanish throne in 1700 (for his grandson) precipitated the War of the Spanish Succession, with England encouraged to join against the French by Louis' recognition of the Old Pretender as James III.
She was greatly influenced by the Jesuits and played a great part in persuading Louis to revoke the Edict of Nantes in 1685.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Louis+XIV   (666 words)

  
 Louis XIV of France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Louis excluded the higher nobility from the conseil, leading the aristocratic diarist Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-Simon to refer to the reign as the "reign of the lowborn bourgeoisie." The French treasury stood close to bankruptcy when Louis XIV assumed power in 1661.
Louis was in the process of reinforcing the traditional Gallicanism, a doctrine limiting the authority of the Pope in France.
Thus Louis XIV's five-year-old great-grandson, the son of the duc de Bourgogne, succeeded to the throne and reigned as Louis XV.
louis-xiv-of-france.ask.dyndns.dk   (4274 words)

  
 Louis of Spain: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
King Louis of Spain - Luis in Sp.
King philip v of spain (1683-1746) or philippe of anjou, grandson of the french monarch louis xiv, was king of spain from 1700 to 1746, the first...
Philip V Philip V of Spain quick summary:
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/louis_of_spain.htm   (632 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ven. Louis of Granada
At the age of nineteen he was received into the Dominican Order in the convent of Santa Cruz, Granada.
Among the hundreds of eminent ascetical writers of Spain, Louis of Granada remains unsurpassed in the beauty and purity of his style, the solidity of his doctrine, and the popularity and influence of his writings.
It enjoyed an extensive vogue, not only in Spain, but in most of the countries of Europe; new editions appeared successively at Venice (1578), Cologne (1578, 1582, 1611), Milan (1585), and Paris (1635).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/09385b.htm   (749 words)

  
 LILLE - Online Information article about LILLE
LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0.
Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span.
Charles V., king of France, gave it to Louis de Male, who transmitted his rights to his daughter See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /LEO_LOB/LILLE.html   (1750 words)

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